Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-01
TORY GOVERNMENT I'm ICELAND.

continued existence OF the present Govern.
ment there problematical. The Premier,
Lord Salisbury, when be assumed the
reins OF government, burdened himself With
the charge OF two important and response
bic Off ea. that Of Secretary of the Treas.
ury and Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
either one OF which portfolios tasks the
capacity Of the ordinary Cabinet Minister.
The prolongation of the recent session en-
tailed constant anxiety and mental strain
upon him and the steady toll at his desk
resulted in q physical arrangement which
has compelled him to seek the quiet and
rest OF a { ontinental resort. In the ranks
OF the Tory party there seems to be no
available man to place at the head of the
Government, aud the only hope of the cor.
tinued e~xisten. e in power of the Conserve.
tives lies in the prospect OF Lord Hartiug.
ton entering the Cabinet. The latter is the
LiberalU nionist leader and his presence ia
the Government would insure continued
adhesion OF that powerful element to it in
the House of Commons.
The history OF Tory Governments
has always been disastrous to Ire
land. Their rule in. that unhappy
country has been fraught with misery,
either from utter neglect or do" might op.
preston. The motto Of Toryism is "thor;
ough." Having undertaken to govern
Ireland by the Coercion Act, thoy will be
hindered by no considerations. moral or
humane, from its enforcementto the bitter
end. The outrage at Mitchelstown, fol.
lowed by the iarcical conviction OF Editor
O'Brien for seditious utterances on evidence
o. the most fimsy character. is an evidence
Of the INSCRIPTIONS means which q Tory
Government will sanction to attain it's
ends. Not a day passes without details
reaching this country Of evictions ruthlessly
enforced and the constabulary, which ia as
military q body as any regiment in the
British army, are reported to be charging
bodies Of peasantry with liked %bayonets,
pulling down the huts of the evicted ten
ants about their ears, and committing
what at this distance seem as utter viola.
tions of the laws Of humanity as ever were
laid to the "unspeakable Turk" among the !
Christian inhabitants of Asia Minor.
England has a serviceable tool in the I
person OF the Irish Secretary, whose sobri- |
quet now is Bloody Balfour." He ia we'll
described by one correspondent a. "a res
olute minister OF England's coercion policy; |
on the alert to take advantage OF the mer-
est chance in the Governments favor; Wig
orous, active and absolutely fearless Of his /
personal safety" Under him the work of
onHoo vnrSnn IN annnrooo thu NaN1o1 i
League will be relentlessly carried on, and
the bitter strife, now begun, will be contin-
ued until the League is crushed in its man.
full endeavors to rally Irish forces in oppo-
sition TO the oppression, or the awakening
feeling OF sympathy for Ireland among the
English themselves, aroused beyond endur- |
ance, causes the Tory Governmentto pause
in it's mad career. For the followers OF
gladstone are many, and although parties
in England are now split up by side issues,
so that party lines are almost indistin.
guishable. yet the iron is entering the souls
of Liberals in England and from the same
causes which are reducing Ireland to the
condition Of a satrapy.
If there's one thing which an Englishman
holds dear, it is free speech-for himself, at
any rate. All the contests for supremacy
that have been Vol in that country
against Privilege are c~rystallised into bis
right to freedom OF speech under any and all
circumstances. But this the Tory Govern.
ment seem disposed to deny him. It seems
that the anti-coercion meetings which were
held in London by the Liberal League were
subjected to police intrusion uudec Gov.
eminent orders. This has caused intense
in Liberal ranks in England,
and the Liberal League was severely
blamed for permitting the presence Of
police at their meetings for the professed
OF ascertaining their object, and
attest advices are that the League has
to refuse Information about
meetings and to resist any attempt
II the police to intrude themselves thereat.
armed with a special warrant. Acts
ike these show that this is the beginning OF
he end OF the Tory Go eminent, a con.
most devoutly to he wished.